Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share
